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<td class="v">9:1</td>
<td>Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.</td>
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<td class="v">9:2</td>
<td>The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.</td>
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<td class="v">9:3</td>
<td>They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.</td>
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<td class="v">9:4</td>
<td>They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">9:5</td>
<td>What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?</td>
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<td class="v">9:6</td>
<td>For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.</td>
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<td class="v">9:7</td>
<td>The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.</td>
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<td class="v">9:8</td>
<td>The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.</td>
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<td class="v">9:9</td>
<td>They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.</td>
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<td class="v">9:10</td>
<td>I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.</td>
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<td class="v">9:11</td>
<td>As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.</td>
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<td class="v">9:12</td>
<td>Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!</td>
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<td class="v">9:13</td>
<td>Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.</td>
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<td class="v">9:14</td>
<td>Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.</td>
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<td class="v">9:15</td>
<td>All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.</td>
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<td class="v">9:16</td>
<td>Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.</td>
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<td class="v">9:17</td>
<td>My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.</td>
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